Professional paper
Intelligence-led policing (ILP) as a policing model in the fight against crime
Vladimir Vidović
orcid.org/0000-0002-1669-0005
; The Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Srpska
Abstract
Are modern crime trends, the internationalization of crime, and its new manifestations forcing
states to organize the police in a new way, and can Intelligence-led policing (ILP) respond to these
challenges? In most countries, the police are organized in a traditional way, which means that the
police react after a crime occurs. However, the traditional way of work especially expresses its
limitation in the fight against transnational organized crime and terrorism. All this indicates the
need to adjust police work to the existing circumstances and to find a new way of organizing work
by which states will be able to fight successfully against crime. The ILP police model is based on
proactive action. It focuses on the systematic collection and evaluation of information, through a
process of quality analysis that is transformed into products of strategic and operational analysis,
which will then serve as a basis for quality decision-making by police managers. Therefore, the real
question is whether the ILP model can face these challenges and how to apply them in the daily
work of the police. Experiences and results of the work of the police of Great Britain and the USA
so far show that it can. Furthermore, citizens and the public increasingly demand that the police
spend less money, and at the same time they expect better results. The ILP model is the one that
enables the prioritization of tasks based on quality information, and thus the rational distribution of
existing resources. Furthermore, the results of the Serbian police show that the implementation of
ILP in the Balkan countries can be successful and have good results.
Keywords
Intelligence-led policing, strategic, analysis, proactive, decision-making
Hrčak ID:
280960
URI
Publication date:
8.2.2023.
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